On Jul 13, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Adams wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management.
Is there a similar package manager for Solaris?
We use pkgsrc http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html A
big reason for choosing pkgsrc is that it works on multiple
Which leads to the interesting question why
OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm.
Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ...
There are better, more robust and more intelligent software subsystems
available than Debian's DPKG or RedHat's RPM format, which makes dpkg
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which leads to the interesting question why
OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm.
Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ...
There are better, more robust and more intelligent software subsystems
available than Debian's DPKG
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 04:25 -0700, Nicolas Linkert wrote:
Which leads to the interesting question why OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get.
Or apt-get. Or rpm. Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ...
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pkgadd has been invented by ATT engineers.
This is known to me.
It still
implements a lot of things
rpm and dpkg are missing.
That is correct. I've recently done some RPM packaging and RPM is pretty kludgy
when it comes to it - packaging is not as straightforward and as simple as it
is
Hmmm...
apt-get merely sits ontop of debian packages - nothing stopping anyone
(or you for that matter) to implement apt-get for SVR5 pkg's.
NexentaOS already has...
DSL
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Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is there a
similar package manager for Solaris?
Try man pkg_add
The Sysv package handling software exists AFAIR since ~ 1984.
Jörg
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is there a
similar package manager for Solaris?
Try man pkg_add
that should be pkgadd one word no underscore.
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Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is there
a similar package manager for Solaris?
Try man pkg_add
that should be pkgadd one word no underscore.
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is
there a similar package manager for Solaris?
Try man pkg_add
that should be pkgadd one word no underscore.
Sorry
Nope .. no mention of the 1693 software packages over
at Blastwave at all.
Gee. I wonder why? That must be the Not Invented
Here monster raising
its ugly head again. Either that or the software at
Blastwave is seen as
beta and not really ready to be used for production
or day to day
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is there a
similar package manager for Solaris?
Thanks in advance.
Jim Adams
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Hi Jim,
* Jim Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is
there a similar package manager for Solaris?
There's nothing similar at the moment in the core of Solaris. It's
being worked on however as we investigate what the future of
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